is a generic term for Japanese tea utensils produced outside Japan, Korea and China, mainly from Southeast Asia.
Items from Korea, called, and from China, called, are not considered shimamono.
They were imported with ships on trade routes and started becoming popular in the 15th and 16th centuries. The term therefore can be taken literally to mean "island objects". By the time of the rule of the Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshimune, imitation were also produced in Japan. However, at this point they were called "striped objects", but the pronunciation remained the same.[1] As such they can be counted as part of Japanese pottery and porcelain.
The treatise Tōkikō describes the Japanese pottery trade with Asia and gives detailed descriptions.[2]
| Name | Kanji | Origins | Notes | Example image | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rusun ware | 呂宋焼 | Luzon | [6] | ||
| Annan ware | 安南焼 | Often blue and white pottery that was later produced in Japan as well. These were originally used as rice bowls but repurposed in Japan for tea. They feature simplified floral motifs as decoration, and their mark is an unusual high foot. A variant is in red and green colours, known as Beni Annan (紅安南). A rare chawan from the 16th century is kept at the Tokugawa Museum in Nagoya and inscribed as an Important Art Object.[7] | |||
| Nanban ware | 南蛮焼 | Items from southeast Asia without exact provenience | [8] [9] [10] | ||
| Amakawa | アマカワ | ||||
| Mōru / Mo-ru | モウル / モール | [11] | |||
| Tō Indu / Tenji | 東インドゥ | ||||
| Kōchi ware | 交趾焼 | Developed from Cochin ware from southern China. Generally in colours yellow, green and blue. | |||
| Nekoro | ネコロ | Nicobar Islands | |||
| Taiwan | 臺灣 | Taiwan | |||
| Hannera | ハンネラ | Southeast Asia | A type of simple unglazed ware, often reddish or orange in colour | [12] | |
| Kinma | 蒟醤 | Siam or Burma | A style of lacquer ware with finely inlaid patterns | [13] | |
| Koma | 独楽 | Siam | Lacquerware, called "spinning top" (koma) because the colours are painted in concentrical rotating patterns | [14] | |
| Sahari | 砂張 | Southeast Asia | Is a general term for metalware, specifically an alloy mainly made of copper containing a small amount of silver and lead, mainly adding tin from southeast Asia origin. It appeared from the end of the Muromachi perdiod until the Momoyama period. The products were initially not made as tea utensils, but found entry through tea masters.[15] | [16] [17] |
